Farai Dziva|Teachers have been urged to report cases of intimidation and harassment.

This follows threats of dismissal from work by officials in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education.

In a statement yesterday, Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) president Takavafira Zhou described the threats as futile and meaningless.

See Zhou’s statement below:
It has come to our attention that DSIs are instructing school heads to compile a list of all teachers who were on industrial action from the 5th to the 8th of February.

May we remind the DSIs and school heads that we will appreciate formal communication to teachers in which we can trace the source of such communication. Since the communique has no source and is not lawful we hereby inform all teachers to disregard it.

All teachers must demand a written communique before appending their signatures on documents that have no known source of origin. Once you get a written communique forward it to PTUZ leaders so that we can take appropriate action.